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Cursor vanishes all the time in leafpad

Red Squirrel

Red Squirrel

No Lifer
Whenever I use leafpad I find my cursor constantly vanishes, it seems to be triggered by typing. The only way to get it back is to close the document and reopen it. Extremely annoying. I tried another text editor called mousepad, it looks the same... also does the same.

I seem to get the weirdest issues.... I can't find anything on google about this issue except for my own post.

Anyone know what the hell would cause this?

I use kate for actual coding, but sometimes a simple text editor is handy for quick small files like configuration or what not.

Speaking of Kate I STILL have an issue where it is practically unusable over NFS because for EVERY SINGLE CHARACTER typed, it writes to the network (I verified this with wireshark). This makes typing extremely choppy. There HAS to be a way to fix this. All my code is over NFS, I don't store anything locally, I have a central file server that way backups etc are centralized. I'm not moving anything locally.

You would think something as simple as text editors would not have so many issues.
 
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At some point that checkbox used to work, but now it does nothing unfortunately.

I ended up just switching editors, using gedit now. Still need to figure out the vanishing cursor issue in leafpad though which I like to use for small config files and other stuff like that, or an alternative simplistic text editor. I suppose I could open those files in gedit too though.
 
I use Mousepad regularly, and have never gotten that. If I had to guess, I'd say it's an X issue. If gedit works, that should be close enough. It's only moderately heavier than Leafpad. You could also go old school and use nano. I like Geany for a full featured editor, but that's overkill for quick config edits and stuff.
 
Download sublime text 3, it is awesome. Paying for it is optional, if you don't you get a little nag box every 20th time or so you save a document. gedit is ok too though.
 
Not dealing with share/nag/pay/ware, it's the whole idea of using Linux, to get away from that crap.

Just occurred to me gedit has no line numbers. Will work ok to replace leafpad but not ok to replace Kate.

You would think there would be more GUI text editors in Linux. Kate was really the best one in terms of features it's just too bad it's bloody slow over NFS. It's unusable.

Any other Kate replacement I can try? Worse case I suppose I can just download the source of Kate and fix the issue but the problem is I don't know how to "install" it so that it's part of the system, otherwise when I double click a file or type "kate" to set it as the default program to open a file type with it will try to use the old Kate that's already installed. I guess I can try to fool around with that and see where it gets me.

Edit: NM Gedit does have line numbers... was under preference. Missed it at first.
 
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